Prayer for dads: Bread of Life

Father, I do not want to start this year with big speeches. So I will just ask: feed me.

In the Bible, Your people stopped eating manna and started eating the fruit of the land You gave them. Let that be my picture. Not a miracle every morning. Just ordinary bread on a kitchen counter. A cup of coffee already made. The lunch I pack after dinner. The work that pays for it.

Teach me to receive the daily kind of food without wishing it were more exciting. If You give me a quiet year, let me not despise it. If You give me a hard one, let me not pretend it is more than it is.

Keep me at the table. Keep me grateful. Keep me honest with the people You set across from me.

Amen.